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As a member of the House of Lords, Lord Hill-Norton asked Her Majesty's Government: " Whether they are aware of any involvement by Special Branch in the investigation of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident ".
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In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!
Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.
Mr. Simpkins made a name for himself as a member of the House of Delegates from 1951 through 1958.
Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.
He was a member of the Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern.
Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.
* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.
She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.
She was a member of the intercollegiate crew and was a resident of Baker House.
The third earl ( a member of the Conservative Party ) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the hereditary peers to remain under an amendment to Labour's 1999 House of Lords Act.
In 1946, Philéas Côté, a Quebec member of the House of Commons, introduced a private member's bill to rename Dominion Day as Canada Day.
One notable use was during the French Revolution, when the dethroned King Louis XVI ( a member of the House of Bourbon and a direct male-line descendant of Hugh Capet ) and Queen Marie Antoinette ( a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine ) were referred to as " Louis and Antoinette Capet " ( the queen being addressed as " the Widow Capet " after the execution of her husband ).
* Page Cortez ( born 1961 ), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lafayette
Neil is the younger brother of Split Enz founding member Tim Finn, who joined Crowded House in 1990 on vocals, guitars and keyboards for the album Woodface.
For their fourth album, Together Alone, Crowded House used New Zealand-based producer Martin Glover ( aka Youth ) and invited touring musician Mark Hart ( guitar & keyboards ) to become a permanent band member.
A statement issued by the band described him as, " A warm-hearted, funny and talented man, who was a valuable member of Crowded House.
* Joseph Crowley – member of the US House of Representatives
During his reign, he also set about creating the Second Mexican Empire ( headed by his choice of Maximilian I of Mexico, a member of the House of Habsburg ), to regain France's hold in the Americas and to achieve greatness for the ' Latin ' race.
* 1988 – Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the Canadian House of Commons to come out as gay.
Albert ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Anton Ferdinand Joseph Karl Maria Baptist Nepomuk Wilhelm Xaver Georg Fidelis ) ( Dresden, 23 April 1828 – Schloss Sibyllenort ( Szczodre ), 19 June 1902 ) was a King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.
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* 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
* Carl Gustav Friedrich Hasselbach ( 1809 – 1882 ), mayor and member of the Prussian House of Lords
Foster was criticised by some in the architecture world for not advocating the importance of high standards of architecture and planning whilst a member of the House of Lords.
At the end of October, it was announced that he would become a member of the House of Lords ( intending to be a working peer ), when he was able to leave his EU responsibilities.
The chief officer of the body is the Lord President of the Council, who is the fourth highest Great Officer of State, a member of the Cabinet, and normally, the Leader of either the House of Lords or the House of Commons.
From 1987, Jenkins remained in politics as a member of the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, of Pontypool in the County of Gwent.
The Prime Minister, the Chief Executive, sits as a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, either as a peer in the House of Lords or as an elected member of the House of Commons ( by convention, and as a result of the supremacy of the Lower House, the Prime Minister now sits in the House of Commons ) and can effectively be removed from office by a simple majority vote.
The house consists of two very different types of member, the Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual.
* February 27 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
" was quoted with regard to Lord Cranborne, a contemporary member of the Cecil family who, in 1998, was dismissed from his Conservative Party office in the House of Lords for conducting unauthorised negotiations with the Labour government.
* Onora O ' Neill, Kantian philosopher and member of the House of Lords
Burlington was called ' the Apollo of the Arts ' and never took more than a passing interest in politics despite his position as a Privy Councillor and a member of the House of Lords.
This meant that he automatically became a member of the House of Lords and forfeited his seat of Plymouth Sutton in the House of Commons.
The Time Lords are an ancient extraterrestrial race and civilisation of humanoids in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series ' protagonist, the Doctor, is a member.
From 1332 on the council was extended by two more members, so that there were 16 Lords ; Antwerp got a second member and the Walloon Brabant town of Nivelles () also got a member.
The Green Party of England and Wales had one member of the ( unelected ) House of Lords, the Upper Chamber of Parliament, Lord Beaumont of Whitley, who died in 2008.
After the Lords considered Shirley v. Fagg ( Sir John Fagg was a member of the Commons ), the Commons warned the Lords to " have regard for their Privileges.
The 11th place on the Supreme Court was filled by Lord Clarke ( previously the Master of the Rolls ), a member of the House of Lords who was the first Justice to be appointed directly to the Supreme Court.
* Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers ( 1720 – 1760 ), last member of the House of Lords hanged in England
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As Astronomer Royal he receives a stipend of 100 GBP per year and is a member of the Royal Household, under the general authority of the Lord Chamberlain.
Ibn al-Mundir al-Qurays, a member of the royal family, was named governor of the city, while the Lord of Carmona obtained the title of vizier.
The president of the Board was known as the First Lord of the Admiralty, who was a member of the Cabinet.
Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.
One member who was not, Lord John Manners, stood against Rothschild when the latter re-submitted himself for election in 1849.
That said, according to Lord Wyatt, this was to be expected as the Queen Mother was " the most right-wing member of the Royal Family.
The posting did not appeal to his mother, who wrote to Lord Charles Beresford, then a senior naval officer, member of parliament and personal friend, to use his influence to obtain something better.
In addition, Cecil had been elevated to the peerage as Lord Burghley in February 1571, increasing his daughter's value as a member of the peerage, so the negotiations were cancelled.
Along with her brother Freyr ( Old Norse the " Lord "), her father Njörðr, and her mother ( Njörðr's sister, unnamed in sources ), she is a member of the Vanir.
He was a leading member of the Duke of York's administration, was created a Lord of the Articles in June and in November 1681 Lord President of the Privy Council.
As a footnote, Lord Peter Wimsey has also been included by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family ; and Laurie R. King's detective character Mary Russell meets up with Lord Peter at a party in the novel A Letter of Mary.
In 1921, Lord Robert Cecil proposed the introduction of Esperanto into state schools of member nations, and a report was commissioned.
As such, he called off Lucrezia's previous engagements and arranged for her to marry Giovanni Sforza, a member of the house of Sforza who was Lord of Pesaro and titled Count of Catignola.
Isaac Foot was an active member of the Liberal Party and was Liberal Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922 – 1924 and 1929 – 1935 and a Lord Mayor of Plymouth.
* 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
Until 2006, the Lord Chancellor was the highest paid member of the government ahead of the Prime Minister.
* November 23 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten of Burma.
* Sir William Walworth, a member of the Fishmongers Guild, becomes Lord Mayor of London for the second time.
On 26 March 1564 Knox stirred controversy again, when he married Margaret Stewart, the daughter of an old friend, Andrew Stewart, Lord Ochiltree, a member of the Stuart family and a distant relative of the Queen, Mary Stuart.
The Lord Mayor is a member of the City of London's governing body, the City of London Corporation ( incorporated as The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London ).
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